Enumclaw, Washington.
Typical home $661,541 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $2,060 (+1.9%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,830 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,916 -0%
- $664,457$661,541 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,097 +12%
- $590,444$661,541 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Enumclaw$3,472
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Enumclaw, WA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Enumclaw, WA rose 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Enumclaw runs $2,576/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,812 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,637 a month against $2,060 rent: a $3,472 mortgage payment, plus $456 property tax and $708 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Enumclaw
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,637
- Renting$2,060
- Mortgage only$3,472
Property tax · $456/mo 0.83% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for King County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $708/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Enumclaw, King County, Washington
Enumclaw is a city of 12,543 people in King County. Half its households earn more than $121,250 a year and half less, against $124,746 across King County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in King County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Enumclaw is a city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where residents tend to be older than in many American towns. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and typical home values and rents are high. Winters are cold and wet, with a small amount of snow most years. Summers are mild and warm, and rain and melted snow fall through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades, with banks, insurance and property and professional and business services also employing many. The largest workplaces in Enumclaw include the Enumclaw School District, Motion Systems Enumclaw, a maker of fluid power cylinders and actuators, and SEH, a critical access hospital. A good number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Several parks lie a short drive away, including Flaming Geyser State Park, Nolte State Park and Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, all protected areas. Lake Tapps, a reservoir, is also a short drive away. For a bigger outing, Mount Rainier National Park is a longer drive.
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- 5,135households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. King County had 1,436,484 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 52°. About 4 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buckley Northeast weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Enumclaw
- Enumclaw School DistrictSchool district507FTE
- Motion Systems EnumclawFluid power cylinder and actuator manufacturing286
- SEHCritical access hospital205FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores135
- Quality Food CentersWarehouse clubs and supercenters103
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes101
- McKee EnterprisesPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction73
- Big Mountain EnterprisesUtility line, construction72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,312 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- AvalanchesVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Enumclaw’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on King County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Enumclaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Enumclaw$661,541
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Enumclaw listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Enumclaw37.67%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Enumclaw19
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Enumclaw117
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Enumclaw28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Enumclaw$671,777
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Enumclaw99.52%
Zip codes with a Enumclaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Enumclaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.